CVE-2020-16969
HIGHMicrosoft Exchange Server - Information Disclosure via OWA Message Token Validation
Title source: llmDescription
<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists in how Microsoft Exchange validates tokens when handling certain messages. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could use this to gain further information from a user.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could include specially crafted OWA messages that could be loaded, without warning or filtering, from the attacker-controlled URL. This callback vector provides an information disclosure tactic used in web beacons and other types of tracking systems.</p> <p>The security update corrects the way that Exchange handles these token validations.</p>
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-16969
Scores
CVSS v3
7.1
EPSS
0.0273
EPSS Percentile
84.5%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Details
Status
published
Products (3)
microsoft/exchange_server
2013 cumulative_update_23
microsoft/exchange_server
2016 cumulative_update_17 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/exchange_server
2019 cumulative_update_6 (2 CPE variants)
Published
Oct 16, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026